The university is experiencing a doubling of engineering enrollments over the last five years after many years of flat enrollments. The school has a unique mission that attracts students from across the nation, so long-term pipeline development is outside the scope of this paper. However, once a student has made contact and then a commitment to attend, there are a number of activities and processes employed both before they arrive and during their first year to maintain the pipeline and retain them in engineering once on campus. The main focus of these efforts are to create a culture of open communications with potential students and increase engagement of engineering students with faculty, engineering professionals, and peers to scaffold resiliency in persisting in engineering degrees.
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